Cheungbeia laterculata


Cheungbeia laterculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies

Description

The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.
The shell is fusiform, solid, and smooth. It is longitudinally ribbed and tessellated with red square spots. The spire is pyramidal. The whorls are angulate in the middle, with two keels present at the angle, and are tuberculated at the ribs. The aperture is subpyriform, and the inner lip is thickened externally and emarginate near the suture.

Distribution

This species appears in the China Seas, on the coastal areas of Vietnam, and from Southeast India to Queensland, Australia.